Lives of Dryden and PopeClarendon Press, 1885 - 326 Seiten |
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... none but a blockhead ever wrote for anything but money , he well knew the dangers that beset that road to Fame , and shows what small 1 p . 70 . chance of excellence there is for an author who is INTRODUCTION . xxvii.
... none but a blockhead ever wrote for anything but money , he well knew the dangers that beset that road to Fame , and shows what small 1 p . 70 . chance of excellence there is for an author who is INTRODUCTION . xxvii.
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Samuel Johnson Alfred Milnes. chance of excellence there is for an author who is forced to write whenever some event gives him a subject on which he may earn . Dryden's poems were almost all occasional , and ' the occasional poet is ...
Samuel Johnson Alfred Milnes. chance of excellence there is for an author who is forced to write whenever some event gives him a subject on which he may earn . Dryden's poems were almost all occasional , and ' the occasional poet is ...
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... excellence of style was a common enough fault in Johnson's day . To what extent the common language of everyday life was then considered unworthy the use of a man of literature is strikingly shown in the following anecdote from Boswell ...
... excellence of style was a common enough fault in Johnson's day . To what extent the common language of everyday life was then considered unworthy the use of a man of literature is strikingly shown in the following anecdote from Boswell ...
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... excellence in general terms . A play thus written , in professed defiance of probability , naturally drew down upon itself the vultures of the theatre . One of the critics that attacked it was Martin Clifford , to whom Sprat addressed ...
... excellence in general terms . A play thus written , in professed defiance of probability , naturally drew down upon itself the vultures of the theatre . One of the critics that attacked it was Martin Clifford , to whom Sprat addressed ...
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... excellence ; but intends to shew that by studied miscon- struction everything may be equally represented as ridiculous . After so much of Dryden's elegant animadversions , justice requires that something of Settle's should be exhibited ...
... excellence ; but intends to shew that by studied miscon- struction everything may be equally represented as ridiculous . After so much of Dryden's elegant animadversions , justice requires that something of Settle's should be exhibited ...
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